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C. Everett Koop

" The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger. "

C. Everett Koop

Mother , Baby , Abortion

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" Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger. "

C. Everett Koop

Mother , Baby , Life

" Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them. "

C. Everett Koop

Health , Drug

" Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time "

C. Everett Koop

Public , Care , Health

" The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens. "

C. Everett Koop

Respect , Country , Rights

" Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation "

C. Everett Koop

Children , Love , Teacher

" The best prescription is knowledge. "

C. Everett Koop

Knowledge , Health , Personal , Growth

" In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life. "

C. Everett Koop

Mother , Christian , Years

" A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days. "

C. Everett Koop

People

" Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take. "

C. Everett Koop

Long , Choices

" By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years. "

C. Everett Koop

People , War , Years

" Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society. "

C. Everett Koop

Society

" When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world! "

C. Everett Koop

Prayer , Heaven , Miracle

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